Vote Now for Best Bed and Breakfast in Virginia Living!

Calling all friends, family, guests, friend guests, family friends, Baggins, Brandybucks and Proudfeet! The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm is in the running for the Best Bed and Breakfast in Virginia so now is the time to vote in the Best of Virginia 2012 survey!

It's easy.

1. Visit the Virginia Living ballot page.

3. Scroll to the bottom and choose Central region.

4. Enter your email address and continue.

5. The slot for Bed and Breakfasts is on the 2nd page under "Living and Recreation"

6. For Best Bed and Breakfast enter "The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm - Crozet"

7. Continue to the end of the survey and submit!

8. Sleep well knowing you have performed a great service for humanity.

THANK YOU!

Dick and Hayden Cabell
Owners/Innkeepers
The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm (Near Charlottesville, VA )
6051 Sugar Hollow Road Crozet, VA 22932

Web: www.sugarhollow.com
Email: theinn@sugarhollow.com
Phone Toll Free: 866-566-7388

Awarded the Certificate of Excellence and Selected for Travelers' Choice Award Top B&B Inns in America by TripAdvisor.com

Photos from a stroll up Sugar Ridge Road

Horses.

No big important message for you today. I just wanted to share some pictures I took a few days ago when I had a chance to go for a walk from our country inn up to White Hall Vineyards. It was great to get out and get some exercise! This is some of scenery you will enjoy if you are up for a stroll after one of our hearty breakfasts.

Mountain view over the vineyard

Old guy, looking a bit tired that morning.

Trying to be artistic with my fence picture.

Flowers in January !?

Post #14 is probably my favorite of the posts.

Barn.

White Hall Vineyards! 

Dick and Hayden Cabell
Owners/Innkeepers
The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm (Near Charlottesville, VA )
6051 Sugar Hollow Road Crozet, VA 22932

Web: http://www.sugarhollow.com/
Email: theinn@sugarhollow.com
Phone Toll Free: 866-566-7388

Awarded the Certificate of Excellence and Selected for Travelers' Choice Award Top B&B Inns in America by TripAdvisor.com

Restaurant Snapshot: Brasserie Montiel

For Restaurant Week, we had a chance to try out a new restaurant (to us) with a couple of good friends. Brasserie Montiel provided an excellent menu (with beef, pork or fish entree choices) and delightful dining experience. We were very pleased with our meals and service from their friendly and efficient wait staff. We would return in a heartbeat - their "regular" menu also looks excellent.

I was fascinated with the unique presentation of our food - each item among the 4 of us arrived in a different beautiful glass dish or bowl in a pastel color of pale green, rose, amber, etc., each an interesting shape that complimented the food being served. (Editor's note: bring a camera next time, sheesh.)

Chef and owner, Alex Montiel was circulating throughout the restaurant, observing, chatting with guests and making sure all was ship shape. Impressive. We have dined at his restaurant in Crozet, La Cocina del Sol, and have sent many of our Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm guests there. We and our guests have always been pleased with their delicious southwestern offerings and service.

Dick and Hayden Cabell
Owners/Innkeepers
The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm (Near Charlottesville, VA )
6051 Sugar Hollow Road Crozet, VA 22932

Web: www.sugarhollow.com
Email: theinn@sugarhollow.com
Phone Toll Free: 866-566-7388

Awarded the Certificate of Excellence and Selected for Travelers' Choice Award Top B&B Inns in America by TripAdvisor.com

Recipe Corner: Beef Vegetable Barley Soup

Dick prepared this delicious soup last night so I thought it would be fun to share the recipe. This is very easy, healthy, and delicious. Give it a try!

Beef Vegetable Barley Soup

1 lb beef stew meat browned
1 cup chopped onion
1 clove garlic crushed
2 stalks celery diced

Saute veggies in oil, add beef and

2 cups beef broth
5 cups water
1/2 cup barley
2 carrots diced
1 14 oz. can diced tomatoes
4 beef bullion cubes
1/2 tsp basil
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper to taste

Simmer for 45 minutes, then add

1 can corn
1 can peas drained
4 cups chopped cabbage
Simmer an additional 15 minutes.

Enjoy! :)

Dick and Hayden Cabell
Owners/Innkeepers
The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm (Near Charlottesville, VA )
6051 Sugar Hollow Road Crozet, VA 22932

Web: www.sugarhollow.com
Email: theinn@sugarhollow.com
Phone Toll Free: 866-566-7388

Awarded the Certificate of Excellence and Selected for Travelers' Choice Award Top B&B Inns in America by TripAdvisor.com

The Glass House Winery, This Place is Bananas

These are some of the  pictures I took at The Glass House Winery in Free Union, VA during a visit yesterday, a very tropical experience! We were relaxing in their beautiful arboretum surrounded by banana trees and other definitely non-native flora. A welcoming warm place to spend an otherwise chilly Saturday afternoon. The yummy chocolates you see pictured here were hand crafted by an in-house chocolatier. I couldn't capture this picture before one piece went missing!

All of the wine was delicious, and I left with a bottle of the dessert wine Megio del Sesso, a chocolate wine made with Norton, Cambourcin and Cab Frank grapes and real chocolate. Delicious! Here is view from within the arboretum overlooking their large pond, a perfect setting.

During your stay at The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm, you will have a great opportunity to visit all of the wonderful wineries along the Appellation Trail nearby.  Be sure to stop in at The Glass House. You won't be disappointed. The staff was very knowledgable and friendly. If you get a chance to speak with the owner Jeff Sanders, be sure ask him about the lightning strike!

Dick and Hayden Cabell
Owners/Innkeepers
The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm (Near Charlottesville, VA )
6051 Sugar Hollow Road Crozet, VA 22932

Web: www.sugarhollow.com
Email: theinn@sugarhollow.com
Phone Toll Free: 866-566-7388

Awarded the Certificate of Excellence and Selected for Travelers' Choice Award Top B&B Inns in America by TripAdvisor.com